Tool-handle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFRE.

JOHN A'. KING, OF'ST. LOUIS, MISSORI.

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. SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersiPatent No. 294,633, dated March 4, 1884.

Application filed June 30, 1883. (No'nioilel.) I

city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tool-Handles,'of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of a screw-driver with my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section at 2 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation, showing a modification. Fig. 4 is a section at 4 4, Fig. 8. The improvement can be applied 'to the handles of many` kinds of tools. I shall describe it as applied to the handle of a screwdriver, as it is a peculiarly convenient appendage 'to this tool, vforming a hammer, by which the screw is started into thesvood preparatory to turning it home by the driver.

A is the wooden portion of the handle, and B is the metal cap. fec'tive hammer. It may be of any suitable form. In Figs. l and 2 it is globular, while in Figs. 3 and 4y it has a fiat face, b, similar to the face of a hammer. l

I do'not confine myself to any particular manner of attaching the cap to the part A, but show two plans. The cap B in Figs. l and The cap forms a very efa, of the part A, and steady-pins b b entering the part A. rFhe cap is held on by a screw, C, passing thro-ugh the cap and into the part A.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the screw C is made in one piece with the cap. Thus the cap is applied by turning it around, inserting the screw O in part A. To prevent the cap turningl back-e ward, it may have a thin lip or lug, D, that may enter a recess in the part A, or be held by a screw or nail. I

I am awarethat tool-handles have been made with an iron ring or ferrule at the outer end,' to prevent the 'splitting' of the handle under the blows of a mallet or hammer, and this I do not claim.

I claim as new and of my invention- 1. Atool having a handle with wooden body for grasping, and a weighted metal cap to adapt it to form a hammer, as set forth.

2. A combined hammer and screw-driver having wooden body A, for grasping, and weighted metal cap for driving a screw, as set forth.

JOHN A. KING.

| 2 has a recess receiving a globular projection, 3o 

